User Reviews

Poured a medium amber color with a small dirty white head, lighter with smoother more mellow body. Nose is butterscotch with a biscuity hint. Taste is nice mix of hops, malts, balanced and good. Butterscotch and bready tastes linger throughout the mouthfeel. Had a sherry like wine taste to it as well, very smooth and damn tasty.This brew I could drink all night long. Maybe this beer needed time to mature but after 6 months from my ast review of this beer it has done a 180.

My local grocery store just did an overhaul of it's beer isle and got this beer in the other day. This was a very good amber ale. It poured a deep amber color with a off white head that left some good lace down the glass. The smell was malty with a bit of fruityness in there too. The taste was very malty, but not overly sweet and was balanced out with just a little bite. My only gripe would be that the mouthfeel was quite thin. But all in all it is a very enjoyable beer and definantly good for sessions.

This tasty ale might become a regular of mine if I didnt have to go 3000 miles to get some. Pours with a nice deep golden color and sticky foamy lace on the glass. The aroma is roasted and chocolate with hints of toffee. The initial taste flavor of roasted malt and coffee gives way to a moderate growing bitterness that finishes off the brew boldly. Very roasted throughout and pleasantly malty.

Slightly hazed honey apricot colored with an oatmeal colored head of thin foam that rises up slowly and settles out to a flat cap.

Aroma of biscuit malt, some honey and fruit.

Flavor of doughey, bready malt upfront, met with mild offsetting bitterness. No hop flavors emerging, but the malt is pleasing. Tasty and round with nuances of toffee and semi-roasted graininess, hints of ripe fruit and mild spice.

Full and creamy mouthfeel, even and moderately carbed.

Good representation of the style, nice to see a solid malt experience with subtle flavors that don't try to knock you down. Very drinkable. Thanks to barleywinefiend for sending it my way.

Ok purchased a single 12 oz long neck.
Not a bad looking Amber at all, clear amber coloured with a large creamy/frothy white head, nice carbonation,lashings of lace.
quite a pleasant malty and buttery aroma..very pleasant.

Very nice tasting amber..its smooth and almost like butterscotch to begin, then a a roughrer coffeeish malt taste ending up with a pleasant slow burning hoppiness.
Very nice and almost creamy on the palate.
Very drinkable ale..I will purchase a 12 pack right away.( it was on sale for $3.99 a six).

Pours a deep amber. Almost red. Splendid colored ale. Not much head and very little lacing. Plenty of carbonation, visibly and on the nose. The scents are average. Nothing stands out. A malty caramel. Some minor hop scents and a slight burnt wood chip smell.

The flavors are better than the scent. This is a mellow ale. Malts are very present with molassas but in some way this ale is not too sweet. It has very minor scotch ale qualities. A toasty quality seems to even this ale out.

There is a crispness in the back of the throat. It drinks very easy and is a very nice ale to have when one is in a quiet mood or reading a book.

12 ouncer sampled, no freshness dating to be found. Pours a solid shade of orangy amber, slight cloudiness. Minimal white head, leaves scattered lacing. Nose is malty, caramel. This is a better then average amber, not the worlds most exciting style, but this one has some flavor notes and a solid mouthfeel and respectable body to rise above the same ole same ole. Malt/hops = balance and drinkability. Would go well with a burger, worth a try, IMHO

Originally sampled on 26 December 2002. Reviewing from notes. It has a cloudy amber color along with a very nice malty aroma w/ a good flavor & mouthfeel. Usually, ambers don't do much for me because they lack flavor & character. This one was very surprisingly enjoyable.

Smell: Big malty, fruity and hoppy aroma. Lots of toasted malt and mild caramel, fruity with a date like sweetness and hoppy with a veggie and herbal smell.

Taste: Medium body with a moderate carbonation, slick and smooth on the tongue. Soft toasted grainy flavours are sweet with hits of caramel. Maltiness is sizable but the hops have no problem balancing things out. Hops and grain get a little raw middle to end with a husky grain and herbal leafy hop flavour. Flavours thin out a bit in the finish that seems more on the sweet side.

Notes: Not a bad Amber Ale at all, an all around decent micro-brew. Nothing really jumps out at you, just an easy drinking ale with a raw side to it.

Appearance is reddish amber with a thin head that dissapates quickly. Smell has a caramel/honey sweetness with dark fruits. Taste of sweet malt, fruity with a slight metallic to it. Mouthfeel is medium - light that is smooth with good body. It has a good amount of carbonation making it a crisp drinker, nothing spectacular, but for the price, not bad.

Pours a classic brownish-amber with a respectable head. Leaves some nice lacing down the glass.

Potent aroma, plenty of malt along with some fruits, caramel and a bit of hops.

Medium body, rich carbonation. Plenty of malt but not too sweet. Caramel flavors jump out immediately and are backed up by what I would guess are Cascade hops. A light earthiness develops toward the end and leaves a light woody aftertaste.

Not a bad amber at all. I have certainly had better, but I could drink a few of these pretty easily.

Poured into a pint glass a orangy brown...well I dont know color it is really but its not amber a thin quick to fade slight off white head atop.Caramel malt dominates the nose with some fruity notes as well I dont pick up much in the hop department really.Starts out with a little caramel sweetness with a touch of butteriness hops come thru in more of a herbalness with just a hint of citrus in the back end.Hmm its pretty good but seems a little rough around the edges the flavors dont seem to meld together real well though.

ok first little disappointed. got a six pack of this amber from the local grocery store. got home found out one of the bottles was only one third filled. so i pissed and moaned and did nothing about it.
ok so this was an over all pretty good amber. as the name says it is amber in color with a small lacy tan head. the aroma is of raosted grains and sweet malt. carmel and small bit nose. the taste was malty, carmely. with a figgy fruitness to it. pretty thin mouthfeel, but not a porblem as it was very highly drinkable.

Pours a dark murky brown unfiltered offering with a good two finger thick, white foam lace. As it settles it leave a thin laced head.

Metallic, herbal, earthy, grainy, dry aroma.

Very smooth with a creamy carbonation feel. Body is dextriny, even and full. Malty, but not very sweet with a distinct raw-ish and tea-like flavour of toasty malts and herbal hops. Earth, some wood notes. Slight hop spice. Strange flat cola-like flavour in the background, with residual flavours fading into the finish.

A rather unusual amber ale, oddly tasty, but nothing all that exciting.

Haven't seen this for some time, pour out of the 650ml bomber a darkish copper liquid with a frothy, almond colored head. Head sticks around leaving a healthy tell-tale lacing behind. Nice color and ample carbonation that keeps the head alive...looks like an American amber/red ale to me.

Smell is of semi-sweet roasted and caramel malts with a tart orange, citrus tone to a light hop finish. On the taste, exactly same as the smell with a medium, somewhat chewy, smooth and creamy finish. Pretty well balanced, seems a bit light on the hops, alcohol is not really detectable. After notes of lightly sweet orange peel remain until the next quaff.

Rich amber color with a nice offwhite head. Smell was musky malt mostly, and nothing special. Taste was similar with a dirty malt taste. Not refreshing or crisp. Sort of boring, bland, sweaty thick malt flavor predominantly. Not very impressed, and although it wasn't offensive, it wasn't particularly good.

Mouthfeel: Body is weak and overcarbonated (in my opinion) as it actually burns my lips and numbs my tongue. There is no alcoholic warmth.

Overall this is a decent beer but perhaps there are better ambers out there for my buck. It is important to note that my sample may have been mishandled as I bought it at a discount store and it may have been past its prime.

Massive butterscotch aroma that totally dominates the nose. Not promising.

The butterscotchiness noted in the aroma is a little more toned down in the taste, but only just. A small amount of biscuity maltiness is able to get through, but this tastes like a beer with problems. Perhaps it wasn't so bad at one time, but I strongly suspect that time was a while ago.

Mouthfeel was average, but there's no reason to even give a crap about it, as this beer's other problems make it irrelevant.

This is drinkable, but barely so. I had luck with the extra pale ale purchased at the same place, but this is no good. Perhaps it can be stomached from the bottle, but put this beer in a glass and you'll be flirting with a drainpour.